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1"Do you know when the mountain goat gives birth? Do you watch the doe as it calves its young?

1“Do you know when the wild goats give birth? Have you watched as deer are born in the wild?

2Can you count the months of their gestation? Do you know the time when they give birth,

2Do you know how many months they carry their young? Are you aware of the time of their delivery?

3when they crouch down to give birth to their offspring, and let go of their birth pangs?

3They crouch down to give birth to their young and deliver their offspring.

4Their young are strong; they grow up in the open field; then they go off and don't return to them."

4Their young grow up in the open fields, then leave home and never return.

5"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey

5“Who gives the wild donkey its freedom? Who untied its ropes?

6to whom I've given the Arabah for a home; the salt plain for his dwelling place?

6I have placed it in the wilderness; its home is the wasteland.

7He despises city noises; he ignores the shouts of the driver.

7It hates the noise of the city and has no driver to shout at it.

8He ranges the mountains that are his pasture to search for anything green.

8The mountains are its pastureland, where it searches for every blade of grass.

9Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will he sleep at night near your feeding trough?

9“Will the wild ox consent to being tamed? Will it spend the night in your stall?

10Can you bind the ox to plow a furrow with a rope? Will he harrow after you in the valley?

10Can you hitch a wild ox to a plow? Will it plow a field for you?

11Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?

11Given its strength, can you trust it? Can you leave and trust the ox to do your work?

12Will you trust him that he'll bring in your grain, and gather it to your threshing floor?"

12Can you rely on it to bring home your grain and deliver it to your threshing floor?

13"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?

13“The ostrich flaps her wings grandly, but they are no match for the feathers of the stork.

14She abandons her eggs on the ground and lets them be warmed in the sand,

14She lays her eggs on top of the earth, letting them be warmed in the dust.

15but she forgets that a foot might crush them or any wild animal might trample them.

15She doesn’t worry that a foot might crush them or a wild animal might destroy them.

16She mistreats her young as though they're not hers, and she has no fear that her labor may be in vain,

16She is harsh toward her young, as if they were not her own. She doesn’t care if they die.

17because God didn't grant her wisdom and never gave her understanding.

17For God has deprived her of wisdom. He has given her no understanding.

18And yet when she gets ready to run, she laughs at the horse and its rider."

18But whenever she jumps up to run, she passes the swiftest horse with its rider.

19Do you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

19“Have you given the horse its strength or clothed its neck with a flowing mane?

20Can you make him leap like the locust, and make the splendor of his snorting terrifying?

20Did you give it the ability to leap like a locust? Its majestic snorting is terrifying!

21He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons.

21It paws the earth and rejoices in its strength when it charges out to battle.

22He scoffs at fear and is never scared; he never retreats from a sword.

22It laughs at fear and is unafraid. It does not run from the sword.

23A quiver of arrows rattles against his side, along with a flashing spear and a lance.

23The arrows rattle against it, and the spear and javelin flash.

24Leaping in his excitement, he takes in the ground; he cannot stand still when the trumpets sound!

24It paws the ground fiercely and rushes forward into battle when the ram’s horn blows.

25When the trumpet blasts he'll neigh, 'Aha! Aha!' From a distance he can sense war, the war cry of generals, and their shouting."

25It snorts at the sound of the horn. It senses the battle in the distance. It quivers at the captain’s commands and the noise of battle.

26"Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings toward the south?

26“Is it your wisdom that makes the hawk soar and spread its wings toward the south?

27Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?

27Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest?

28He dwells on the crags where he makes his home, there on the rocky crag is his stronghold.

28It lives on the cliffs, making its home on a distant, rocky crag.

29From there he searches for prey, and his eyes recognize it from a distance.

29From there it hunts its prey, keeping watch with piercing eyes.

30His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."

30Its young gulp down blood. Where there’s a carcass, there you’ll find it.”

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